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What she didn’t tell him

January 3, 2023 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

I want to turn our attention to the short story in Luke’s Gospel, when Jesus goes missing.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus

How James of Jerusalem Enhances My Faith

October 23, 2022 By Leyla King Leave a Comment

While his martyrdom is certainly dramatic, what is most interesting to me about James is the controversy surrounding his relationship to Jesus.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, Jesus, siblings, St. James of Jerusalem

Gentle Mary

July 26, 2022 By Mariclair Partee Carlsen 1 Comment

In the early months of the pandemic, locked down with my young children in a too small city row house with no real backyard to speak of, I found myself losing my patience, something already in short supply, much like milk, diapers, and grocery delivery slots.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parenting

The Parable of the Good Parent

March 25, 2022 By Tina Clark Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, the moment when God sends an angel to a young, unknown, unimportant Jewish woman to announce that she will bear the Savior.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parable, parenting

All things Advent

December 12, 2021 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

In an Episcopal Mission Church in the mountains, Father Joe staunchly said: not one bit of Christmas until the Christ Child is placed in the manger.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Blessed Virgin Mary, Children in church, Elizabeth

Saying Yes to Bearing God in the World

August 15, 2021 By Lindsay Barrett-Adler Leave a Comment

Isn’t it the fundamental call of all Christians to take on the role of God-bearer?

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: baptismal covenant, Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, incarnation

Mary, Adoption, and Divinity

August 12, 2021 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 8 Comments

As time went by, I found myself growing bitter toward Mary. She was a woman, but she had no idea what it was to pray for a baby and then not be able to conceive one. She received divine intervention without even asking for it.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: adoption, birth, Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, science, St. Mary the Virgin

God Can Survive Your Questions

March 25, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 2 Comments

Lately I’ve been praying through my spiritual past, letting memory guide me through how I became a Christian in a non-Christian family, how I traversed fundamentalism to later become Episcopalian, and how the Episcopal Church dared to ordain me both deacon and priest

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, fundamentalism

Reservations & a Borrowed Wedding

February 28, 2021 By Anne Warner 1 Comment

Later today I’ll call 600 Kitchen & Bar in downtown Kalamazoo and ask a question I’ve never asked before. “Yes, hello, are you taking reservations for shipping container tables for February 28?”

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Sheep Groomers, Shipt Shoppers, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

September 8, 2020 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

A scene from that quirky 1993 movie Household Saints had been on my mind, and I found myself watching well beyond the part I intended to revisit.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, parenting

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